Kung Fu Vampire is most frequently linked to the hip-hop subgenre known as horrorcore, which has drawn a cultlike following — as well as quite a bit of controversy — with its graphic usage of horrific imagery and themes in its lyrics. I want my music to bring you to that dark level — to meet whatever your demons are. His early influences included the Talking Heads, the Doors, N. Like most of those acts, Kung Fu Vampire opted to do things his way from the start — even if others thought he was headed in the wrong direction.
He put out the first Kung Fu Vampire disc in and spent the next 10 years seeing little return on his investment. Yet many who saw his act or heard his records felt he had what it takes to make it big. From that moment on, Kung Fu Vampire was golden in the eyes of horrorcore fans. Now, Kung Fu Vampire may finally sink his fangs into the kind of success that has so far eluded him.
He has made fans out of people with very diverse musical tastes—horrorcore, heavy metal, electronic music, techno—but not many hardcore hip-hop fans have embraced him over the years. I just came out with nothing gimmicky—I just came out with a live band and killed it.
He feels like the album needs to be heard without any distractions. Love Bites is that album. Lyrically, Love Bites covers a lot of bases, including for the first time, several political songs. It is a song, he says, about how love can kill. It tells the true story of a close friend who was killed this year for getting mixed up in the wrong love triangle. Kung Fu Vampire has never been an alcoholic. Kung Fu Vampire is an American rapper and the vocalist of the musical group of the same name.
Kung Fu Vampire began breakdancing at the age of six, and taught himself how to rap and sing while playing drums and bass as a hobby. At the age of 12, his aunt began taking him to see concert performances, and introduced him to a gothic style of dress. At 14 years old he and three friends formed a group infusing classic hip hop with funk and electronica. Kung Fu Vampire formed a band, and he also used the vampire concept to write a novel unpublished.
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